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UCLA School of Dentistry receives $1.5 million for community-based education

Pre-doctoral students provide dental care under faculty supervision at the community-based Wilson-Jennings-Bloomfield UCLA Venice Dental Center. The UCLA School of Dentistry has received a $1.5 millio... read more

WesternU's College of Dental Medicine to Receive $8.4 Million From First 5 LA

POMONA, CA--(Marketwire - Mar 15, 2013) - Western University of Health Sciences College of Dental Medicine will receive $8.4 million from First 5 LA to provide ... Since 1998, the program has allocate... read more

Increasing access to dental services

The UW School of Dentistry is one of two schools on the West Coast to receive a grant of almost $1.5 million from the Robert Wood ... Foundation’s Pipeline Profession & Practice: Community-Based Denta... read more

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Dental school given $1.5 million to improve access to care

Called the OHIO project, or Oral Health Improvement through Outreach, the effort was awarded a five-year, $1.5 million ... and education officials, and community advocates, was one of 10 in the countr... read more

The Whole Child: School-Based Health Centers

OPENING DOORS FOR MIDDLE-SCHOOL AGE STUDENTS Like all SBHCs in the district and county, Roosevelt Health Center provides services in five core areas: medical, behavioral health, dental, health educati... read more

Schools work to improve vision health

Unlike dental decay and asthma, vision problems are not associated with student absences and the correlating loss in revenue for school districts, which receive funding based ... grants that total abo... read more

West Africa: New Tool Can Help Identify Nations Vulnerable to Ebola

4 March 2015 FrontPageAfrica (Monrovia) West Africa: New Tool Can Help Identify Nations Vulnerable to Ebola read more

Staff and Advisors

Richard Alcorn is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School (PVCICS), which opened in 2007. Mr. Alcorn led the effort to secure a $1.5 million U. S. De... read more

How Kids’ Sports Became a $15 Billion Industry

A family from Ottawa sent their 13-year-old to New Jersey for a year, to increase his ice time on the travel hockey circuit. A sponsor paid the teen’s $25,000 private-school ... generated $13.7 millio... read more

Taking preventive health care into community spaces

"The research shows that health providers might need to think outside the box on how and where to deliver health services," said Janet Frank, lead author of the study and an adjunct associate professo... read more